EnglishGerShun Avilez
Amiri Baraka (b. 1934–d. 2014) was born Everett LeRoy Jones in Newark, New Jersey. After the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, he left Greenwich Village and moved to Harlem to take up the work Malcolm had begun. Rejecting his bohemian past, he committed himself to black nationalism and founded the Black Arts Repertory TheatreSchool to radicalize the poor through art.“Amiri Baraka.” Faculty63101Oxford University Press
